100 Most Influential People of All Times - from Buddha and Hammurabi to Thomas Edison

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Learn more about 100 Most Influential People of all times - from
Buddha and Hammurabi to Thomas Edison and Brothers Wright. Their lifes, views,
and careers illustrated with drawings, photographs, and maps.

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Kings, Emperors and Politicians

Religious Leaders

Humanitarians

Thinkers and Philosophers

Scientists

Inventors

Explorers and Pioneers

Musicians and Composers

Writers

Painters, Sculptors and Architects

Stage, Screen and Photography

Kings, Emperors and Politicians
Menes (ca. 3100-3000 BC) - united Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom.
Hammurabi (c.1792-1750 BC) - first king of the Babylonian Empire.
Cyrus the Great (ca.576-530 BC) - founder of the Persian Empire.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) - king of Macedon; he conquered most of the
world known to the ancient Greeks, never losing a battle.
Asoka (304-232 BC) - emperor of India who converted to and spread Buddhism.
Qin Shi Huang (260-210 BC) - Chinese Emperor; unified China, initiated construction
of the Great Wall of China.
Hannibal (247-183 BC) Carthaginian military commander and politician.
Julius Caesar (c.100-44 BC) - Roman military and political leader; key role
in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Humanitarians
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) - political and spiritual leader of India and the
Indian independence movement. In India, he is recognized as the Father of the
Nation.
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) - a Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews
leave the Soviet Union while serving as the consul of the Empire of Japan to
Lithuania.
Raoul Wallenberg (1912-c.1947) - worked at great personal risk to save thousands
of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust by issuing them protective passports from
the Swedish embassy.
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Explorers and Pioneers
Marco Polo (c.1254-1324) - one of the first Westerners to travel the Silk Road
to China.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) - discoverer of the Americas.
Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) - Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer.
Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe. In 1507, a world map was produced
which named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's first name,
Amerigo.
Vasco da Gama (c.1469-1524) Portuguese explorer, the first person to sail directly
from Europe to India.....